What a beautiful tribute to childhood. You need not spell out but your words paint a beautiful childhood, albeit one you might never return to but you can compensate by setting the child in you free occasionally.
I for one think that even stage in your life needs to be celebrated and rejoiced.
Simple pleasures constitute the many fond memories of my childhood. Accompanying my father to the vegetable market, enjoying a piece of 5 star or Diary Milk, climbing trees and eating lots of mangoes, morning walks by the lake and the books that have stayed my best companions.

I think the child in me is perpetually free and can never be reined in! 😂 It can be a curse at times. 🙊 Yes, every stage in life needs to be cherished… but it seems to me that we only realize how beautiful a phase was once it’s over. Alle?

Oh yes! That is a fact of life. Either we are too busy enjoying that moment or we are too busy wishing for the grass that appears greener on the other side.
It is not a curse, my dear. To have that child inside you is beautiful. You see things differently, more simply actually. I hope that you stay that way for a long long time.

Athey! but alas athu pooyi. Its okay, we will remind ourselves to live our present then. I relive all that through my children now. It might look a little crazy to someone who is a spectator but luckily I am free of spectators.